I haven't had a chance to follow up on my own post so
here it goes.
this is defintely true with us cars in latin america.
a cheap used car here ($1000) would be $4000 in
mexico. Taxes are the reason of course and the laws of
supply and demand.
>>also it is fair to say these 2 are the 2 easiest
tripoints on mxus
in regards to that mike i believe ch/nm/tx isn't that
hard to access either especially from the other side.
back to cars for a moment, mexicans can import usa
cars and put mexican plates on them for around $300,
but the trick is that they put special bright orange
plates on them say 'FRONT' for frontera or border.
Domestic cars have white plates. The FRONT licensed
cars can only be used in the border area of MX (or in
the USA too) which encompasses the entire baja
peninsula and a 20km strip south of the actual border
in mainland MX.
anyone who has been to mexico walking over for a day
trip knows that controls crossing the border are
relaxed, but for those who cross into the 'interior'
as it is called (after the 20km strip) have to cross
customs again, and that is when the real scrutiny
takes place (immigration, cars, merchandise, etc).
That got me wondering if there is anywhere else in the
world with such a buffer zone, where the actual legal
border recognized by 2 neighbors isn't enforced
tightly by one neighbor but after passing a free zone
or buffer then it is like crossing through actual
customs. I'm sure this condition must exist in other
areas. Any thoughts?
Of course the free zone, or buffer, is done so drunk
americans can spend as much as they can without going
through the hassle of customs, etc. There's also many
advantages for the mexican residents on the their side
of the border like work in the american and foreign
factories.
vc
--- acroorca2002 <
orc@...> wrote:
> such prohibitions against untaxed car imports are
> perhaps nowhere
> more severe than in latin america
> where most very old north american cars eventually
> wind up
> just owing to the laws of supply & demand &
> geography
>
> i can still distinctly remember the shock of seeing
> a clear majority
> of 1930s & 1940s vintage north american cars in
> montevideo & buenos
> aires & especially in asuncion paraguay as recently
> as 1967
> all transported by ship since there is no road
> connection
> & all basically held together with chewing gum &
> bailing wire etc
> since time immemorial
>
> they were taxed in south america at 10 or 20 times
> their north
> american value
> since basically they were all that was available to
> drive there
> & i guess the govts had to capitalize on something
> in order to survive
> & the people had to drive
> so they either paid the tax or smuggled the cars in
> somehow
>
> to drive an american car down to latin america
> overland you had to
> pay a stiffer & stiffer bond at every border you
> crossed until you
> eventually ran out of money before you ran out of
> road
> & then you had to backtrack to north america hoping
> to recover your
> bond in order to pay for the return trip
>
> this is probably still somewhat if not substantially
> true today
>
> but this whole topic is way off our regular
> principled topic
> & doesnt even have anything to do with our regular
> unprincipled topic
> namely which side of the road to drive the blasted
> things on
> so i dont even know whether to apologize for even
> acknowledging &
> yikes actually adding to the discussion
> but there you have my 2cents worth in any case
>
> m
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Jesper Nielsen"
> <jesniel@i...> wrote:
> > I did some asking around in a car newsgroup.
> Driving in a foreign
> registered car more than 3 months (how do you prove
> it, and can you
> do a u-turn at the border after the 3 months?) The
> penalty could be
> paying the Danish registration charge, that could be
> something like
> 100.000 DKK ($13.500).
> >
> > Jesper
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Jan S. Krogh
> > To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 9:29 AM
> > Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Using foreign cars
> in your native
> country (-> was USMX tripoints)
> >
> >
> > Of course it is linked to residenceship, not
> citizenship! The
> chance for being nicked is small, but the
> consequences might be big
> if you loose your car.
> >
> > Jan
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jesper Nielsen [mailto:jesniel@i...]
> > Sent: 24. september 2002 23:38
> > To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> > Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: USMX
> tripoints
> >
> >
> > It's also a Danish law.
> >
> > But it's not a matter of citizenship, but of
> residenceship,
> right?
> >
> > Jan, you can take your (possible) LT car with
> you into Norway,
> can't you?
> >
> > Anyway if I hired a car in Germany or Sweden,
> the chance for
> being nicked would be very small with the open
> borders. And I don't
> know the penalty.
> >
> >
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